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  • As My Mother Would Say

    Como Decia Mi Mama

    by Judith Valles ...
    As My Mother Would Say...is about being raised in a conservative Mexican Family that valued the traditions and sayings of Mexico. The proverbs or dichos were a daily dose of teachings from my mother. We believed she made them up as situations arose and it was not until we began using the dichos as adults, that other people we met from Mexico could relate, laugh and say my grandma used to say that. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Cuba beyond the Beach

    Stories of Life in Havana

    by Karen Dubinsky ...
    Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • King of Cuba

    A Novel

    by Cristina Garcia ...
    A “darkly hilarious” (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this “clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows what connects and divides Cubans inside and outside of the island” (Kirkus Reviews).Vivid and teeming with life, King of Cuba transports readers to Cuba and Miami, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Black Cats and Evil Eyes

    A Book of Old-Fashioned Superstitions

    by Chloe Rhodes ...
    This collection investigates the origins of our most intriguing old-fashioned superstitions, many of which we still find ourselves abiding by today.Hundreds of the beliefs passed down through the generations have their foundations in our ancestors' efforts to ward off evil, which they blamed for hardship, illness and injustice in times when life was, as often as not, 'nasty, brutish and short'. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • The Fan, Illustrated

    by Louisa Paar ...
    This brief illustrated piece gives the history and lore of the hand fan. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Academic Profiling

    Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap

    by Gilda L. Ochoa ...
    Today the achievement gap is hotly debated among pundits, politicians, and educators. In particular this conversation often focuses on the two fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States: Asian Americans and Latinos. In Academic Profiling, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses this so-called gap by going directly to the source. At one California public high school where the controversy is lived ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Latino Culture

    From Calaveras to Quinceañeras [3 volumes]

    Edited by Charles M. Tatum ...
    Series series Cultures of the American Mosaic
    This three-volume encyclopedia describes and explains the variety and commonalities in Latina/o culture, providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Latina/o cultural forms—popular culture, folk culture, rites of passages, and many other forms of shared expression.In the last decade, the Latina/o population has established itself as the fastest growing ethnic group within the United States, ... Read more

    $227.89 USD

  • The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque

    Complex Identities in the Atlantic World

    by Harald E. Braun, Jesús Pérez-Magallón ...
    Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation in the transatlantic world of the Hispanic Baroque. Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined with sociological concepts such as class and estate, with geography and religion (i.e. the mixing of Spanish Catholics with converted Jews, ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Film and Politics in India

    Cinematic Charisma as a Gateway to Political Power

    by Dhamu Pongiyannan ...
    Series Book 7 - Film Cultures
    In the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, all five of the Chief Ministers since 1967 have been former actors. This provocative book debunks the notion of Bollywood as the synecdoche of Indian cinema to explore the hitherto less studied, yet highly influential cinema in South Asia. Developing the concept of the politics of sentiment, the author examines the ways in which actor-politicians ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Medicinal Plants of the Borderlands

    A Bilingual Resource Guide

    by Antonio Noé Zavaleta ...
    In Medicinal Plants of the Borderlands: A Bilingual Resource Guide, anthropologist Dr. Antonio "Tony" Zavaleta shares medicinal plant information from his lifetime of experiences with Mexican folk healers known as curandero/a(s). Consulting with their patients, healers issue recetas, handwritten prescribed orders for medicinal plants to be filled at hierberas, herb stores. While many of the more ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple.

    Narrative of Four Years' Residence On the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey Into the Far Interior

    by Susie Rijnhart ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics. Replica of 1901 edition by Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh.This is an Illustrated edition.This is an account of Susie Carson Rijnhart (1868 - 1908) and her husband, Petrus Rijnhart, spent as missionaries in Tibet from 1895-1899.Susie Rijnhart and her husband offered medical services to the locals, as well as Bible classes and discussion with the lamas they ran into. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones

    Illuminating Gender and Nation

    by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps the most discussed aspect of Palma’s work – engaging with new critical thinking on historicism and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD